: At 24 frames per second, the movie spans roughly 136,800 individual frames .

Early MP3 players and flash drives often had tiny capacities (32MB, 64MB, or 128MB were common).

Everyone has seen Shrek . It is part of the millennial and Gen Z lexicon.

Remarkably, multiple computer science enthusiasts on platforms like the r/AV1 Reddit Community successfully compressed the movie into an actual, watchable video with coherent sound. They leveraged highly sophisticated video workflows to squeeze every byte out of the data structure. 1. The Video Codec: AV1

: You can find various versions on sites like GitHub or Archive.org by searching for "Shrek 8MB AV1."

Why not The Matrix ? Why not Toy Story ? The choice of Shrek was not accidental.

: Some experimenters use cellular-grade speech codecs (3GPP) to save more space for the video.